The Videogame News Thread

[Mcjon01]

Really? They look exactly the same to me except one has computer magic and the other has vampire magic

[Deathhappens]

Difference is Cyberpunk is close to finished, while VTMB2 is obviously, painfully still in alpha. And VTMB2 is supposed to launch a month before Cyberpunk.

[Mcjon01]

Once you accept that VTMB2 will be a 5 hour game that ends on a cliffhanger like all modern RPGs you'll see that it's close to finished too

[Deathhappens]

I don't remember any of the RPG's I played recently being like that. Even Deus Ex MD and Mass Effect Andromeda (which were less than well received) had more content than that.
Granted, it wasn't really good content, certainly not compared to the shoes they were filling, but that's a different matter. I don't expect Paradox to fill Troika's shoes (though I'd give them good odds if they were making a strategy game, or at least something turn-based a la Battletech and not an open world RPG which they have no experience doing), but I do expect them to deliver a complete game when it seems that they're preparing to pull an Obsidian to meet the release date they've set.

...Then again, considering the original VtM:B's spotty release state, maybe they're following Troika's footsteps a bit too well...

EDIT: I hadn't looked it up, but it looks like the studio responsible for VTMB2 isn't one of Paradox's in-house studios, but an outside collaborator with exactly one game to their name (which I'd never heard of before). Hoo boy.

[Mcjon01]

I mean I was specifically referring to those two games lol. Maybe 5 hours was lowballing it but Mankind Divided in particular had one tiny hub world and like, ten sidequests and three main story missions, it was pathetic

Also Dragon Age Inquisition

[Aozaki-desu]

Difference is Cyberpunk is close to finished, while VTMB2 is obviously, painfully still in alpha. And VTMB2 is supposed to launch a month before Cyberpunk.

i havent seen either trailer but alhpa version of the game is perfectly normal to release in the west nowadays
also sweet crunch time

Paradox is the publisher for VTMB 2 right? Stellaris is still a piece of shit after all that time, releasing a dump and "finishing" it via dlc is their MO as far as i'm concerned

[Deathhappens]

I mean I was specifically referring to those two games lol. Maybe 5 hours was lowballing it but Mankind Divided in particular had one tiny hub world and like, ten sidequests and three main story missions, it was pathetic

Also Dragon Age Inquisition

To be perfectly honest, I never finished Mankind Divided because despite more than meeting the recommended specs the game was unforgivably slow loading and dropped frames like nobody's business, but according to Steam I've logged 25 hours on it and I quit somewhere in Golem City, which I'm told is halfway through the game. Being anal about getting the perfect stealth run is a great way to pad a game's runtime. Inquisition and Dragon Ages past the first 1 I never bothered with, so I can't comment.

i havent seen either trailer but alhpa version of the game is perfectly normal to release in the west nowadays
also sweet crunch time

Paradox is the publisher for VTMB 2 right? Stellaris is still a piece of shit after all that time, releasing a dump and "finishing" it via dlc is their MO as far as i'm concerned

Stellaris was perfectly playable out the gate and it's still playable right now, with or without DLC. It's still not where people want it to be because people keep comparing it to Paradox's other GSG's with vastly different scopes, but other than being unforgivably memory-heavy in the end years it's a complete game. If VTMB2 comes out as buggy as 1 did (and it's looking like it will) barely a month before Cyberpunk, that's going to torpedo the stocks of any White Wolf property getting adapted ever again. I still haven't lost hope on that WoD MMO CCP was supposed to make.

[Aozaki-desu]

Stellaris was perfectly playable out the gate and it's still playable right now, with or without DLC. It's still not where people want it to be because people keep comparing it to Paradox's other GSG's with vastly different scopes, but other than being unforgivably memory-heavy in the end years it's a complete game. If VTMB2 comes out as buggy as 1 did (and it's looking like it will) barely a month before Cyberpunk, that's going to torpedo the stocks of any White Wolf property getting adapted ever again. I still haven't lost hope on that WoD MMO CCP was supposed to make.

Its a shitty game
like its a pretty bad game if you tally up all DLC costs and development time it had since launch

[Daiki]

Once you accept that VTMB2 will be a 5 hour game that ends on a cliffhanger like all modern RPGs you'll see that it's close to finished too

Don't care, just want more Dishonored.

[Reign]

Xenoblade remake/HD port HOLY SHIT.



This is such a good game. Please play it.

[Mattias]

The crazy bastards did it. A #FE remaster/on-a-system-more-than-twelve-people-owned. Well they have my money. Maybe there won't be godawful wedding dress censorship this time. Or the hot springs interlude.

I think the only WiiU game I love now that hasn't been ported is Super Mario 3D World, then again There's plenty of other Mario games in line before that one gets redone *cough*Galaxy*cough*.

[Reign]

Switch still needs Wind Waker and Twilight Princess HD ports before I'm willing to shelve my Wii U.

Is #FE actually any good?

[Mattias]

I'm obviously biased, but it's pretty much Persona lite, with some neat other mechanics like chain attacks 20+ hits long. None of the sim elements of Persona, so grinding out sidequests and character storylines is a lot more relaxed. The plot is basically just something you'd see in Sailor Moon (or I guess Symphogear, but I've actually seen SM), with the FE characters basically being the Personas.

It was great when P5 was a year away, and P4 was six years ago. If you want something fun to play while you're waiting for P5 Royale, check it out.

[Skull]

It's been so very long, but Brandon Heat has finally returned. T_T



Oh hey, Bunji is here too. I guess we can kill him for like the fourth time already.

[Wandering Swordwoman]

Wew, astral chain got some bomb 0 score because being Nintendo exclusive. Console war is real. Lmao

[Kamera]

excellent video essay on vidya industry



developers of the world unite

[Deathhappens]

"News", this ain't.

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Also, I've never played Smash get fucked

[Wandering Swordwoman]

I played several times with my cousins

[Imperial]

More Gungrave?

Holy shit. I'll take things I never expected for $500.

[Wandering Swordwoman]